Chair of UK’s National Committee on Blockchain DLT/1

I would like to share that I’ve been elected Chair of the UK’s national committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology – DLT/1 supported by the BSI, the UK’s standards body.

BSI will form this committee that represents the “UK voice” into what is needed and to feed into international standards in development in the new ISO committee. Committee should represent all the relevant stakeholders (academia, government, trade associations, SMEs, etc).

It’s been quite a start for 2017, moving back to London in July after 2.5 years in Australia. While in Australia, in April 2016 I authored the following proposal to create an ISO Standard for Blockchain with the help of Standards Australia .

The vote took place at ISO in October with the following countries endorsing the proposal and Australia being appointed the Secretariat of the technical committed (TC307). Each country will form its own national committee and send representatives to the ISO Technical Committee (TC307).